Report-back from the Demonstrations of June 10 (from CrimethInc) Starting on June 6, Los Angeles erupted in resistance to federal raids targeting immigrants. The unrest rapidly spread around the country. In the following report, participants in a full day of breakaway marches and confrontations in Chicago on June 10 reflect on the potential of this […]
Spring is unfolding, and the time has again come to look towards June 11th, the International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason and Long-term Anarchist prisoners. While our celebration of this day is to lend attention to Marius and other anarchist prisoners at risk of being forgotten because of their long sentences, we’re also continually […]
NEW YEARS EVE NOISE DEMO to #FreeThemAll NO COPS – NO BORDERS – NO PRISONS – NO ICE MCC CHICAGO – 10PM – 71 W VAN BUREN International Call For New Year’s Eve Noise Demonstrations This is a call for a raucous night of strong solidarity with those imprisoned by the state on one of […]
From Philly ABC: Philly ABC extends our solidarity to Samidoun, the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, in response to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) falsely-premised sanctions against the organization announced on October 15th. As anarchists and abolitionists attuned to organizing against prisons and policing, we recognize this as the […]
An update on Hybachi LeMar’s extradition from IDOC to PADOC. Be sure to pick up a copy of his new book, “The Ghetto-bred Anarchist”. From HelpACompa.com: We are sad to announce that, although Hybachi LeMar was scheduled to be released on parole from IDOC Jacksonville Correctional Center on October 4, 2024, he was instead picked […]
All True Leap Press titles are now available for download and order through South Chicago Anarchist Black Cross. From Free Casey Now! Casey is a dedicated community educator, writer, distroist, and printer who has committed their life to struggles for liberation. A federal investigation by the FBI and several other law enforcement agencies resulted in […]
From Behind Enemy Lines: Drop all the charges against DNC protesters! It’s right to rebel against genocide! For five days, Brandon Johnson’s thuggish police department has been repressing free expression in defense of the Death and Nakba Coronation (DNC). On Tuesday night, hundreds of CPD officers (including superintendent Larry Snelling) brutally attacked a Behind Enemy Lines […]
🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴 RUNNING DOWN THE WALLS 2024 Sunday September 15th – MCC Chicago (71 W Van Buren) 5pm: Rally, march, 5K marathon run/walk/bike/roll 7pm: Music by Glutton for Insurrection, Flowering, Nocturnal Prose (San Antonio), DJ Anarchotech, mach3t3 afilado, cutieademon, + TBA Join us outside that brutal downtown fed joint MCC Chicago for this year’s Running Down […]
UPDATE 6/14: Thanks everybody for calling – the phone zap successfully pressured them to release the three from solitary confinement and into general population! ⚡ 📲 PHONE ZAP! ⚡ 📲 Need your support! Three people enduring solitary confinement in the Putnam County Jail of so-called Florida (Micccosukee, Seminole, Timucua, and Mascogo land) BACKGROUND Our transfem, […]
UPDATE :A statement from Leonard Peltier about the US Parole Commission denying his parole “Greetings my Friends, Family, Loved Ones and Supporters. Hope is a hard thing here. But I always hold hope in you, My People. Pay attention. The parole decision on July 11 may show you what justice truly means to this nation […]
Check out Marius Mason’s 2024 statement for June 11 and an action item demanding proper healthcare and gender-affirming surgery. More information on how to support Marius at his support site. Dear Family and Friends, Thank you for coming together to support all anarchist prisoners still kept from freedom. Your positivity and encouragement have meant the […]
From ItsGoingDown.org: An update on the sentencing of anarchist prisoner Jorge “Yorch” Esquivel and a call for action and solidarity Urgent call for solidarity! On Monday, June 3, 2024, one day after the elections and five days from marking 18 months of being kidnapped in the Reclusorio Oriente as part of the set up against […]
June 11, 2024: No Separate Worlds More information at https://www.june11.org We once again approach June 11th, a day of remembrance and active solidarity, in a world of multiple crises and struggles for liberation. All of these are interconnected; there are no separate worlds. Across borders, languages, contexts, and identities, both catastrophes and victories of spirit […]
Through occupations, marches, and direct action, the people are rising up and taking bold and imaginative action to escalate the disruption against the genocide in Palestine. The system is responding with the full repressive apparatus, pushing copaganda and counterinsurgency while militarized IOF-trained police attack crowds with physical brutality and mass arrests. Chicago Anarchist Black […]
We are sharing some resources we found helpful in navigating repression and arrest, hoping that by demystifying their legal systems, we may dispel our fears and inhibitions, becoming fully prepared to take smarter and bolder action. “Tilted Guide to Being a Defendant” (Tilted Scales Collective) “Know Your Rights” (National Lawyers Guild Chicago) “Health and Safety at […]
Breaking Through Borders and Prison Walls Building Bridges of Solidarity A new Chicago Anarchist Black Cross is forming to strengthen networks of resistance and defend those facing state repression. Having each other’s backs grows our collective capacity for revolutionary action so that we may break free from prison society. We are down with all those […]
From Hybachi LeMar support site HelpACompa.com: Hybachi LeMar has been sentenced to three years in prison: after enduring over six months pretrial detention and transfers through Cook County Jail and Stateville NRC, he has now landed at Jacksonville Correctional Center, where it is expected he will remain until his parole date in November 2024. None […]